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Treffinger, Donald J.; And Others – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1980
The article presents 19 specific guidelines for training creativity test administrators, and 22 specific guidelines for training creativity test scorers. Some examples of positive verbal reinforcement for the verbal form of the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking are also provided. (DLS)
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Examiners, Scores

Wakefield, John F. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
This article reviews the history of divergent thinking tests and provides a projection of current research suggesting a bright outlook for creativity tests. A model relating problem finding and problem solving is described, as are approaches to increasing test reliability. (DB)
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Research, Creativity Tests, Divergent Thinking

Cooper, Eileen – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
This paper critiques the following tests of creativity: (1) the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking; (2) the Creativity Assessment Packet; (3) subtests of the Structure of the Intellect Learning Abilities Test; (4) Thinking Creatively with Sounds and Words; (5) Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement; and (6) the Khatena-Torrance Creative…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Tests, Divergent Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education

Khatena, Joe – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1989
The paper describes methods of identifying giftedness, instruments for assessing creativity, and the need for a single measure of many different kinds of talent. Development of the Khatena-Morse Multitalent Perception Inventory, which identifies talent in the areas of art, music, leadership, and creativity, is discussed. (JDD)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Art, Creativity, Creativity Tests

Taylor, Diana – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1980
Freudian and Jungian theories are considered in terms of poetry, and suggestions are made for teaching the basics of poetry to adults for creative development. Focusing and free association activities are discussed. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Creative Development, Creativity, Poetry

Patterson, Becky H. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1986
Principles of creativity and andragogy (the art and science of helping adults learn) are compared and found to be complementary especially in such areas as self-direction, active learning, and preference for the problem centered approach. Adult educators should utilize creativity research and creativity researchers should incorporate the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Andragogy, Creativity

Serafine, Mary Louise – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1979
Aesthetic creativity is explained to emphasize sensory content and a nonverbal mode of cognition. Examples are given in which aesthetic creativity is emphasized through productive and receptive activities. (CL)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Class Activities, Creativity, Sensory Experience

Goldberg, Minerva J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1975
Article listed 67 films on creativity, from creativity in education to an interpretation of Zen philosophy. (RK)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Creative Activities, Creative Thinking, Creativity

Cheyette, Irving – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1979
Factors to help students develop creative aesthetic discrimination in music are discussed, and the importance of educating students to be intelligent consumers of music is stressed. Considered are specific objectives in music education, sociological aspects, musical skills, and imagery. (CL)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Creativity, Music, Music Activities

McAllister, Caroline – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1980
The author reviews the importance of creativity training for children and discusses a project in which three types of metaphors (the direct, the personal, and the integrative) were used to foster creative thought. Activities emphasized sensory expression through predivergent, exposure, conversion, postdivergent, and expresson phases. (CL)
Descriptors: Creative Development, Creativity, Learning Activities, Metaphors

Yawkey, Thomas D.; Hrncir, Elizabeth J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1982
Imaginative play can enhance preschoolers' oral language when the child's internal control is strenghtened, external reality is suspended, and motivation exists to become involved. The caregiver provides cues in the arrangement of the environment and selection of materials. Cues can encourage dramatic as well as sociodramatic play. (CL)
Descriptors: Creativity, Cues, Dramatics, Imagination

Wenger, Win – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1981
The author describes three techniques for developing conscious awareness of the responses and behaviors of the right parietal lobe through describing a right brain related impression aloud in sensory image terms of color, shape, and texture. (CL)
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Creative Development, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education

Torrance, E. Paul – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1979
The author offers an instructional model to enhance the chances that incubation will occur in creative problem solving. Note: For related information, see EC 120 232-238. (CL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Creativity, Models

Hines, Terence – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1991
This article reviews the evidence on the relationship between the two brain hemispheres and creative cognitive processes. It concludes that claims about creativity being "in" one or the other hemispheres represent an uncritical acceptance of naive pseudoscientific beliefs about the brain and brain function. (DB)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Creativity

Gordon, W. J. J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1974
Author presented a selection of examples of the role of connective analogies in invention/discovery. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Creative Activities